Scott O'Dell

With studies at Occidental, Wisconsin-Madison, Stanford and Rome, he began writing after WWII, first producing adult articles and books before turning to children’s fiction in the late 1950s. His debut, Island of the Blue Dolphins, won the 1961 Newbery Medal, a German youth literature prize, and later joined the Lewis Carroll Shelf list. Follow-up titles such as The King’s Fifth, The Black Pearl a… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources